Nelson Algren Main Contributor (1 results)

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. VG+. Crackle-textured blue and gold wrappers. No ownership markings. 8vo. 79 pp. Frontis.; maps.; illus. [possibly woodcuts]; biblio.; an insert of photos on glossy page stock (23); color fold-out map. Also a year by year annals of notable historical events; and list of interviewee-informants. The attached color fold-out map is bright and free of tears with some tanning to backside/verso only. A few tanning spots to last glossy blank page. "The Galena Guide is first of a series of city guide books to be published in Illinois by the Federal Writer's Project" [WPA]. The novelist Nelson Algren was the main author of the text. The 18 woodcut illustrations by Robert Delson, including the frontispiece, are particularly accomplished. There is a small self-portrait of Delson on p. 10. Ships fast and securely with tracking.…